Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dear Sir, formerly called Vanity Fair, has nothing at all to do with either Thackeray or formal correspondence. It has merely to do with Long Island society and is just another one of those things. Chiefly conspicuous is the amiable score of Jerome Kern. Walter Catlett makes his first appearance after three years in Sally. Genevieve Tobin comes out of straight comedy to sing the lead with more or less success...
...downtown cabaret, the girl recalled the tableau long ago when her father was murdered in the old saloon. She recognized her mother and returned to her childhood sweetheart who had courted her from the top of a brewery wagon long ago. As routine picture entertainment, the film is a fair sample. In performance, Ricardo Cortez and Virginia Lee Corbin are conspicuous...
...Harvard line, on the other hand, has not yet been seen in action, and we can judge of its ability only from the daily scrimmage at Soldiers Field. Greenough, in fact, is its only member at whom critics of the game have had so much as a fair chance, and at that it was when he was at the pivotal position. The other six are practically unknown quantities to the outside world. To closer followers of football they are all known to have had coaching under Fisher for either one or two seasons, and most of them to have played...
There was a great parade of the buddies. In it marched General Charles G. Dawes, with the Evanston contingent, refusing to sit on the reviewing stand. There was a public marriage of a post commander from Winnebago, on a platform before the grandstand on the State fair grounds. Eighteen chaplains, a band of "3,700 pieces," a spotlight, a freight-car load of wedding presents and 50,000 spectators took part...
Candidate Davis. ". . . He is one of life's fair-haired boys. . . . When he sells his legal service he does not throw in his soul for good measure. . . . Mr. Davis' mind is as smooth and round as his face...